Blockage

It has been only 2 months since Adam's take-down surgery. He has a blockage...about a foot into his small intestine. He is back at the hospital. They placed a NG tube down his nose to try and drain some of the fluid.

His trouble started about 2 weeks ago. Stomach irritation, occasional vomiting, acid reflux, etc. Then a couple nights ago he awoke with pretty severe stomach pain. We took him to the ER in the afternoon. They did a CT and found a partial blockage. They transfered him by ambulance up to the U. Dr. P said that sometimes these kinds of blockages can work themselves out if all the fluid build-up is pumped out. He has had the tube in for about 24 hours. It has been very uncomfortable...lots of gagging. Then..after a walk we discovered that it had come out quite a bit. The nurse pushed it back in, but it wasn't pumping anything out. She got hold of a Dr. who told her to take the tube out. Apparantly he only had abou 250 ml come out during the night...but maybe that is because the tube wasn't in the right place! At this point it is a waiting game...waiting to see if things start moving through like they are supposed to. If not...surgery is the next step!